Bug#697874: Legacy drivers and gdb

[Andreas Beckmann]

Control: reassign -1 nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver 304.64-3

On 2013-01-13 20:52, Harald wrote:
> Andreas,
> 
> thanks for your suggestions. I followed those and installed the 486
> kernel and combined the 686-pae and the 486 kernel with nvidia driver
> 304.64 (the actual one), 173.14.35 (from legacy-173xx package), and
> finally 96.43.23-2 (from legacy-96xx package. The result was always the
> same: X crashed on the invocation of gv.

I don't expect the 304.108 driver would fix this, but have you tried it
anyway?

> Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
> 0xb7504424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> #0  0xb7504424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> No symbol table info available.
> #1  0xb71c8941 in raise () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
> No symbol table info available.
> #2  0xb71cbd72 in abort () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
> No symbol table info available.
> #3  0xb7204e15 in ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
> No symbol table info available.
> #4  0xb720ef01 in ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
> No symbol table info available.
> #5  0xb7210768 in ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
> No symbol table info available.
> #6  0xb721381d in free () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
> No symbol table info available.

memory corruption? double free? free of overwritten pointer?

libc6 debug package would have been helpful, too

> #7  0xb755f8c7 in doListFontsWithInfo (client=0xb8b675b8, c=0xb8b6ba58)
>     at ../../dix/dixfonts.c:1038
> #8  0xb756375d in ProcessWorkQueue () at ../../dix/dixutils.c:522
> #9  0xb769d860 in WaitForSomething (
>     pClientsReady=pClientsReady at entry=0xb89e5658) at ../../os/WaitFor.c:170
> #10 0xb755f0ee in Dispatch () at ../../dix/dispatch.c:357
> #11 0xb754ce95 in main (argc=6, argv=0xbfbb9394, envp=0xbfbb93b0)
>     at ../../dix/main.c:288

http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=doListFontsWithInfo
==> this is xorg-xserver

Nothing at all from nvidia in the backtrace ...


Andreas